Famous Quotes & Sayings

Harriet Lerner

While women once acquired relationship skills to "hook," "snare," or "catch" a husband who would provide access to economic security and social status, the position of contemporary women has not changed that radically. Much of our success still depends on our attunement to "male culture," our ability to please men, and our readiness to conform to the masculine values of our institutions.

Holly Marie Combs

To stop smoking was actually really easy because I had already started to cut down. My husband is asthmatic, and he just can't for the life of him imagine why anybody would put smoke in their mouth, so he really helped me to start cutting down.

Holly Marie Combs

I printed a list of Irish names from the Internet and my husband, Dave, saw Finley on the list. I really liked it but didn't want to scare Dave off with my enthusiasm. So I used a little reverse psychology and let him think it was his idea.

Iain Banks

I'm a devoted husband. That must strike you as totally deviant.

Hortense Odlum

How many wives have been forced by the death of well-intentioned but too protective husbands to face reality late in life, bewildered and frightened because they were strangers to it!

Guy Fieri

I really felt that I had accomplished my goals in life. My first passion has always been to be a restaurateur, a good husband and father, and to provide for my family.

Gillian Flynn

What a generous thing that is, I realize, for a husband to try to make his wife laugh.

Jamaica Kincaid

I don't feel I'm angry. I feel as though I'm describing something true. If I had stabbed my husband, I could understand being called "angry." If I had an affair with my husband's best friend and written about that experience, I could see the anger. But I'm not doing that.

Jennifer Beals

My husband does so many romantic things for me, it's absurd.

Jennie Finch

My husband, after two weeks of dating, asked me, if our relationship were to work out, would I be OK with our first boy being named Ace.

Jeanne Phillips

"Great guys" can make great husbands.

Jeanne Phillips

A man who doesn't make you feel special, wanted or important would make a very poor husband.

Gloria Gaynor

I had cars, houses, jewels, furs, and a husband who loved me, and a career I was happy with. But I found fulfillment in my relationship with Christ.

Gloria Estefan

I wouldn't recommend working with your partner for everyone, because it's tough. There's got to be a really keen balance. You've got to know when to stop being the manager and become the husband. I can't go home and complain to my husband about my manager.

Jessica Savitch

Women didn't want to watch other women on television because they were jealous of their husbands' diverted attention.

Jeremy Renner

And I don't care if you're talking about things that are true, you're still talking about my personal life. How about I go peek in your window, take what underwear you wore last night, whose husband you were f---ing, and shove that in the megaphone throughout your neighborhood? How does that feel? It's none of your goddamn business.

Jenny Lawson

The first thing I do when I come home is check the refrigerator for cats because I'm convinced that if one dies, my husband will hide it in there because I don't cook and so I won't see it. I do drink Cokes, though ,so technically he should hide the corpse in the oven. And now I need to start checking the oven.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

It [feminism] is mixed up with a muddled idea that women are free when they serve their employers but slaves when they help their husbands.

Hanna Rosin

If my own current husband was suddenly a stay-at-home dad, it would be emasculating. That would be hard for me.

Guru Nanak

By twice born men a widow must not be appointed to ,cohabit with any other ,than her husband , for they who appoint ,her to another ,man , will violate the eternal law.

Guru Nanak

If a woman abandoned by her husband, or a widow, of her own accord contracts a second marriage and bears ,a son , he is called the son of a re married woman .

Guru Nanak

But for disloyalty to her husband a wife is censured among men, and ,in her next life she is born in the womb of a jackal and tormented by diseases, the punishment of her sin.

Jessica Capshaw

My husband always smells good to me.

Jessica Alba

Your husband or your wife is the only person you can really choose to be your family and to have unconditional love with them.

Honore de Balzac

A lover teaches a wife all her husband has kept from her.

Honore de Balzac

Between the daylight gambler and the player at night there is the same difference that lies between a careless husband and the lover swooning under his lady's window.

Honore de Balzac

The man as he converses is the lover; silent, he is the husband.

Honore de Balzac

A husband who submits to his wife's yoke is justly held an object of ridicule. A woman's influence ought to be entirely concealed.

Honore de Balzac

A husband and wife who are in the habit of occupying separate rooms are either beings apart, or they have found happiness. Either they hate or they adore each other.

Honore de Balzac

One exits with one's husband -- one lives with one's lover.

Honore de Balzac

A husband and wife who have separate bedrooms have either drifted apart or found happiness.

Honore de Balzac

When a woman wants to betray her husband, her actions are almost invariably studied but they are never reasoned.

Honore de Balzac

A woman's sentimental monkeyshines will always deceive her lover, who invariably waxes ecstatic where her husband necessarily shrugs his shoulders.